Mbp 13" ssd?

I have a 13" MBP (early 2010 model) and I want to speed things up a bit by putting in a SSD drive.

As I use lots of virtual machines, the standaard 4500rpm drive is really crappy.

So I'm looking for a SSD that works well with the MBP (including the hibernation mode!), offers good speed, reasonable storage (120Gb is an absolute minimum, more would be better) and doesn't come too expensive.

I know it's a lot to ask but I figure I'm not the only person on the planet looking for such a drive.

I have a 13" MBP (early 2010 model) and I want to speed things up a bit by putting in a SSD drive.

As I use lots of virtual machines, the standaard 4500rpm drive is really crappy.

So I'm looking for a SSD that works well with the MBP (including the hibernation mode!), offers good speed, reasonable storage (120Gb is an absolute minimum, more would be better) and doesn't come too expensive.

I know it's a lot to ask but I figure I'm not the only person on the planet looking for such a drive.

Any tips or experiences here?

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Go with the Samsung 470 128 gb ... it seems to be absolutely rock solid with reliability and no issues for anyone.

That's the drive I stuck in my mid August 2011 mbp 13. Startup times are 13 secs and once running the system is incredibly responsive aka "snappy".

I have a 13" MBP (early 2010 model) and I want to speed things up a bit by putting in a SSD drive.

As I use lots of virtual machines, the standaard 4500rpm drive is really crappy.

So I'm looking for a SSD that works well with the MBP (including the hibernation mode!), offers good speed, reasonable storage (120Gb is an absolute minimum, more would be better) and doesn't come too expensive.

I know it's a lot to ask but I figure I'm not the only person on the planet looking for such a drive.

Any tips or experiences here?

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You do already have 8 gigs of RAM in your machine right? Because if you're trying to run virtual machines with 4 gigs... and you want a SSD instead of RAM, that'd be like putting a ferrari engine in a standard car, without putting a better transmission, brakes, and tires on it as well.

That is not true. If you run only one VM or small ones such as Linux without GUI it will work well enough with 4GB. I give 1 GB to Win 7 and still have enough inactive RAM. Only if you run many VMs in parallel and or do some heavy lifting in one VM where a 1GB win7 won't do, you will need 8 GB.
For Testing stuff in Windows or using some Windows only Apps 4GB works well enough.

The SSD however speeds up VM launch incredibly, which means you only have to launch it when you need to and not have it waste memory, battery and produce more heat all the time.

You do already have 8 gigs of RAM in your machine right? Because if you're trying to run virtual machines with 4 gigs... and you want a SSD instead of RAM, that'd be like putting a ferrari engine in a standard car, without putting a better transmission, brakes, and tires on it as well.

Just to use the crappy car analogy.

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That's not accurate, I have a late 09' MBP with 4GB and have no problem running Virtualbox with Windows 7 running and doing stuff and at the same time doing stuff in OS/X... no slow down or anything.

That's not accurate, I have a late 09' MBP with 4GB and have no problem running Virtualbox with Windows 7 running and doing stuff and at the same time doing stuff in OS/X... no slow down or anything.

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I also have 1 virtual machine running Windows 7 and whenever I start that up, I immediately perceive slowdown.

I assumed everybody would understand the subjectivity of the matter; personally I run multiple browsers with at least 15 pages open at all times, iTunes, video, and Word/Excel documents along with a plethora of other programs running in the background.

Because of this, a VM simply cannot run efficiently, for ME, due to the high volume of things I have running in the background at all times.

Now if I just turn the machine on and start a VM, it's all good, but if I'm actually doing stuff, it simply isn't an option.

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